Bringing it All Together

The best part of adopting the tool is that it allowed us to become proactive in making better project selections. We initiated our Project Management Office and used this tool. Several months later, our corporation began talks with the business areas on the subject of portfolio management, and because of our previous involvement using this tool, we were ahead of the game at the corporate level and were able to share many lessons learned as well as provide demonstrations on how we used it.

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Pros

The ability of having all your projects aligned to the Business Drivers has helped us make better selections of projects and show how we are making our projects align with objectives/goals that align back to the overall business drivers. We are proving that we are a business partner who invests in projects that are in support of the company's strategies. Project management, team accountability, and dashboard reporting have been of the most positive outcomes of using this tool. Because of it's integration with SharePoint it is also user-friendly because our end users are already comfortable with using SharePoint's capabilities an interface.

Cons

The only con to using this tool is culture acceptance. Since everything is visible in real-time it allows little 'tweeking' from project managers. Therefore, they have at times been reluctant to have a complete buy-in of the overall process.